Re: [cx-oracle-users] RE: strange character encoding problems

[Marcus E. <i...@eg...>]

Ok, you definitely made my day!
I'm quite new to oracle and I searched for hours if I missed an 
environment variable. I thought I only had to set NLS_LANG with an 
'alter session' statement.

To make a long story short:
Thanks a lot!

Marcus

Henning von Bargen wrote:
> Ahmm, might be a dumb question,
> but have you checked your environment variables
> and (on Windows) Oracle Regstry keys?
> 
> In particular, how is NLS_LANG set?
> If the character set in NLS_LANG differs from that
> used in the database, then Oracle will convert characters.
> If the character set are equal, Oracle will pass all
> characters AS IS, and your program can even use characters
> that are not defined at all in the character set.
> 
> Henning
> 
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